NCJ Number
81421
Date Published
Unknown
Length
216 pages
Annotation
This handbook describes the fundamental concepts, facts, and procedures of comprehensive planning and shows how they have been applied to Hawaii's unified court system.
Abstract
Part 1 examines the concept of court unification and describes some of the more salient characteristics of Hawaii's unified court system. It also focuses on the functions and activities of the judiciary through its eight major components. Part 2 describes the comprehensive planning applied to the unified court system of Hawaii. Also examined are the organizational aspects of comprehensive planning and the implementation mode adopted to develop and execute plans. Part 3 describes the specialized features of the comprehensive planning process of the judiciary. The conceptual framework which organizes and relates the various components of the planning process is discussed, and the multidimensional character of the judiciary is shown. The coding system devised to identify, coordinate, and relate the various components of the planning process is described, and the role of future research in the planning process is indicated. Part 4 considers the principal mechanism for implementing the judiciary's plans and programs: the program planning and budgeting system of the State. Part 5 focuses on the substantive aspects of planning by presenting in narrative and summary form the goals of the judiciary and its programs. Appended are definitions of terms used in the handbook and in planning generally, the constitutional article which establishes the framework for Hawaii's unified court system, selected statutes relating to the administration of the unified court system, and the consensus statement of The Citizen's Conference on the Administration of Justice published in 1967. (Author summary modified)